Look on the "aspens" thing between Libby and Miller as mythic in structure in order to understand it.
We are like human beings trying to apply our own knowledge to a set of alien intelligences.
Really.
Metaphor, reality or anything in between...these people are not human in any way that most of us can easily understand.
The common knowledge idea that "The rich are different than you and me" (widely and apparently mistakenly attributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald, but no less truly or generally believed for all of that...) is woefully incomplete.
The POWERFUL...the truly powerful...are indeed "different". They have crossed over a line that separates them from the rest of us.
They have either crossed over or they have been born on the other side. Take your pick.
Read on.
What IS this "difference"?
It is very simple.
They are willing to kill to get get what they want.
To injure. To maim. To ruin.
This IMMEDIATELY confers power on a person, no matter where in the social hierarchy that person has been born and no matter how gifted that person may be.
Dumb as a stick and born in the gutter...the leg breaker up from the streets wears a $1000 suit and drives an expensive car.
The SMART ones become multimillionaires.
And if those smart ones are born into (or somehow otherwise achieve) positions of real power...then WATCH OUT!!!
They ARE "different than us."
They are literally alien to our worldview.
In my opinion, people like Adolph Hitler and Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney are simply speaking, not (or at the very least no longer) "human".
And their servants...the Roves. the Libbys, the Millers...they are more like the Renfield figures in the "Dracula" myth.
Enduring mytrhs...and the vampire myth is one of the MOST enduring...are always "true" on some level, or else they would have faded away before human memory existed.
So here we are trying to parse the meanings of a communication between two half-human servants of a grand coven of vampires.
Look at it as part of a mythic structure.
Not "spycraft".
Not the stuff of cheap thrillers.
A language that is not totally human.
About alien occurrences that are outside of the stuff of our daily lives.
"Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."
How Borg-like.
You want intertwined roots?
Here are some more.
The letter from Libby to Miller is sent "c/o Robert S. Bennett, esq."
And who IS Mr. Bennett?
Why he's the brother and chief defender of William Bennett, champ Ratpub fixer and (apparent) recent racist foot-in-mouther.
But...WAIT A MINUTE, HERE!!!
Is what Bill bennett said any different than what the Bush admin DID during Katrina?
Not really.
Eliminate the 'inferior" by any means necessary.
And what about Iraq?
What is REALLY happening in Iraq?
Why, the "inferior' races are being eliminated or at the very least, dominated.
That's certainly the plan, anyway.
What connects Miller, libby, etc.?
The Plame case.
Why is THAT important?
Because it was used as part of a plot to invade Iraq.
And how does the vampire justify his depredations?
"They are inferiors, these humans, and I am immortal!!!"
Hmmm...
Aspens (the tree cursed by God in yet another myth for turning its back on Jesus), quaking leaves, turning as one in the west (where the sun sets to darkness), intertwined roots, Hunter Thompson dead in Aspen while researching a story about child molestation and naked evil at the highest levels of government...
Scared yet?
I am.
And with what does this "Scooter" creature (What better name for an insect-like or reptilian servant of a Dark Lord) precede this little aspen missive?
"You went to jail in the summer. It is fall now. You have stories to cover. Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program."
A veritable précis of the booga-booga threats still in play by these bogeymen.
Understand me, here...I am not being "literal".
But neither am I waxing poetic.
Oscar Levant once said "There is a fine line between genius and madness. I have erased that line."
Well...there is a fine line between myth and reality.
I WALK that line.
Come walk with me.
You can see both sides from here.
Have fun...
Charles